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Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo’s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens

This blog post was updated on October 4, 2018.


Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo’s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Lori M. Nichols/South Jersey Times

 

If you’re anywhere near Philly right now, know that a crazy cat lady in the OneTravel office is unreasonably jealous of you (as in, me). This past April, the Philadelphia Zoo got its paws on a litter of African Black-Footed Cat kittens.

 

Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo’s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Philadelphia Zoo

 

As you can gather from the photos, they’re fluffy and impossibly tiny. So tiny that Uproxx reports that the breed’s adults weigh between three and four pounds, making them the smallest cats in the entire world.

 

Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo’s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Lori M. Nichols/South Jersey Times

 
How so much cute could fit into such bite-sized kittens is one of Mother Nature’s miracles. And for the record, they’re named Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion after the dragons on Game of Thrones. Go ahead and gush, geeks!
Basically, no one in the world could hate on these cats, except maybe those with no souls. I mean, just look at these faces:

 

Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo’s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Philadelphia Zoo

 

Source; Photo Credit: Lori M. Nichols / South Jersey Times

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